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Decision Making with Analytics

Date:

Sunday, July 2nd, 2017

Time:

4:00 PM KSA / 1:00 PM GMT

Speaker:

Mehmet A. Begen, PhD, CAP

DescriptionProfileYou Will Learn

Analytics has gained significant popularity and become vital and disruptive for the business world. Companies use analytics to gain competitive advantage, manage their operations, increase their profits, provide high customer service and achieve more. Application areas are diverse such as retail (online and offline), healthcare, sports, finance, service, transportation, human resources and manufacturing. This webinar will introduce business analytics and its related concepts (such as big data, data science and predictive modelling) and illustrate examples of applications in decision making with analytics. The webinar will be useful to business leaders and managers who would like to get an introduction to analytics and explore potential improvement opportunities in their own organizations.

Mehmet worked in management consulting as a project manager before his Ph.D. studies. He is a certified analytics professional (CAP). Besides Ivey, Mehmet has cross appointments with Statistical & Actuarial Sciences and Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Western University. He has over 15 years of experience in analytics and operations research.

Building a business that drives success takes defining and building a winning team of leaders. This seminar will outline how to define the next line of leaders that share your Mission, Vision and Values. In addition, you will learn the steps to building and developing the leaders you defined that your business will create a legacy of success.

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